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Future Convention Cities Initiative (FCCI)Sunday, 21 October 2012Presented by Lyn Lewis-Smith, CEO of Business Events Sydney and Chair of FCCI

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Global members

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• Leading future-focused cities that want to drive industry best practice and expand understanding of business events as a key economic driver.

• Developing and deliver strategies to grow the local knowledge economy and maximise the long-term benefits of business events through:

– Using business tourism, and meetings in particular, as a tool to help drive economic development and productivity (trade, investment, knowledge exchange, innovation)

Why does the FCCI exist?

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• Benefits Beyond Tourism: measuring the social legacies of business events

• Understood to be the first time a quantitative study has been undertaken

• Phase 1 and 2 = Sydney centric

• Phase three rolled out across all FCCI cities to gain a global perspective

Project one: Beyond Tourism Benefits

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Project one: Beyond Tourism Benefits

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Collaboration, innovation, sharing

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• BTB final report will be released at IMEX Frankfurt, May 2013

• New research project announced, 2013• Looking to grow membership to ensure

truly global representation • Member meeting in Sydney, April 2013 • Website, end of 2012

Future plans for FCCI

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